Trump Declares War On Halloween With Another Weird Christmas Rant

With still two weeks left before Halloween and more than five weeks until Thanksgiving, Donald Trump abandoned both holidays and skipped ahead to Christmas. During a speech on taxes on Tuesday evening, the president took a holiday detour.

With just 68 shopping days left until the big day, Trump said, “Let’s give our country the best Christmas present of all: massive tax cuts.”

It wasn’t just a single, off-handed reference. He then launched into a Yuletide aside:

You know, you go to the stores, and they have the red walls and they have the snow and they even have the sleigh, and the whole thing. They don’t have ‘Merry Christmas.’ They don’t have ‘Merry Christmas.’

While the president has rarely mentioned Halloween, he’s had no problem capitalizing on it. Trump just released an orange, Halloween-themed version of his MAGA hat, with a jack-o-lantern on the front and the slogan “Make America Great Again” on the back.

For the first 300 years of Christianity, the church did not have a feast day set aside to celebrate Jesus's birth. It wasn't until 336 A.D. that December 25 <a href="http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/how-december-25-became-christmas/" target="_blank">first showed up</a>&nbsp;in records as a&nbsp;holiday commemorating its founder's birthday, listed in a Roman almanac on Christian bishops and martyrs.